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...rats of the garden, and she adored daffodils. She loved Wagner and Merle Haggard, Proust and Trollope and Dick Francis, but she described lunch with Erich Segal as like having "a hot fan blowing in my face." Her interest in the British royals was complex. She loved Princess Di for her instincts but described Charles as "having the survival smarts of a baby seal...
...sermonettes to an art form. The survivors of the Tuskegee, Ala., syphilis experiments and the victims of 1950s radiation research have all been awarded the presidential seal of sorrow. Tony Blair, an adroit mimic, apologized for the Irish potato famine before he even got around to hearing the latest Di-and-Fergie gossip from the Queen...
...point came during a June 5 game in the central city of Gifu, when the burly Di Muro called two strikes on popular Chunichi Dragons slugger Yasuaki Taiho. Taiho didn't appreciate it much, and let Di Muro know it. Since American umpires take less guff than their Japanese counterparts, Di Muro tossed Taiho out of the game. That touched off a melee. The crowd jeered at the American, and coaches and players charged him. Taiho repeatedly shoved Di Muro in the chest. The end result: U.S. baseball officials called Di Muro home last week, while Taiho played ball...
...American umpire in Japan. Those who thought that possible underestimated how difficult it would be to penetrate the Japanese game, which is run by a cabal of players and managers as protectively as the Finance and Trade ministries are captained for the good of the economy. Di Muro's insistence on standing by his strike and ball calls upset the system's harmony--what the Japanese call wa, as besuboru expert Robert Whiting wrote in his 1989 book You Gotta Have...
...Di Muro affair is a reminder that the harmony between the U.S. and Japan is still fragile. U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky certainly won't bother pushing Japan to take in American umpires the way Washington once demanded the country import more Louisville Slugger bats. But Japan's trade surplus with the U.S. is once again rising at an alarming rate. At this weekend's Denver summit of the Group of Seven leading industrial nations, the U.S. will push Japan to open its economy further. "Japan's bureaucrats talk all the time about how they have an open market...